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    "localId": "81985",
    "label": "Alexander the Great Confers with Wise Men",
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    "title": "Alexander the Great Confers with Wise Men",
    "description": "On this folio from Walters manuscript W.622, Iskandar (Alexander the Great) confers with wise men about his intention to investigate the mysteries of the deep.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad 'Ali Shirazi ibn […] Muhammad Qasim Shirazi, 1250 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "935 AH/AD 1529 (Safavid)",
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